Vixen

[mally]

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Many thanks for your kind comments on Vixens condition. She's actually not looking her best at the moment TBH as we've not been out as often as i'd have liked due to the hard ground conditions. The ground was very hard when the photo's were taken and vixen ended the day with bruised feet but nothing serious. I certainly wouldn't have run her on open fields just on the grass.

Vixen has a natural muscle tone, all i do to keep her in condition is walk her approx 2-4 miles a day with 1/2 hour free running and i work her at least 2 full days a week during the season along with a couple of nights lamping. I also feed a good quality diet, she gets Chudleys greyhound racer in the morning and Raw minced lamb from TPMS and a spoon of dried nettle with her evening feed.

She really is my pride and joy, she's a dog that never fails to amaze me. I have actually never owned a working dog like her she gives her all out in the field.Vixen is the best rabbiting dog i've had the pleasure of training .She's also a pleasure to have around in the house, she's like my shadow always wanting to be near me lol.

I've actually entered her in the huntinglifes lamping competition. She will be running against lurchers. our first heat is at the end of the month. We've been drawn up against last years winner!!! so i don't expect to win. What i will say though is she'll give her all and i'm looking forward to meeting up with likeminded folk for a few nights lamping.

 

[hely]

Fantastic Photo's mally......Vixen is looking stunning

 

[trac]

simply stunning

 

[~Annie~]

Many thanks for your kind comments on Vixens condition. She's actually not looking her best at the moment TBH as we've not been out as often as i'd have liked due to the hard ground conditions. The ground was very hard when the photo's were taken and vixen ended the day with bruised feet but nothing serious. I certainly wouldn't have run her on open fields just on the grass.
Vixen has a natural muscle tone, all i do to keep her in condition is walk her approx 2-4 miles a day with 1/2 hour free running and i work her at least 2 full days a week during the season along with a couple of nights lamping. I also feed a good quality diet, she gets Chudleys greyhound racer in the morning and Raw minced lamb from TPMS and a spoon of dried nettle with her evening feed.

She really is my pride and joy, she's a dog that never fails to amaze me. I have actually never owned a working dog like her she gives her all out in the field.Vixen is the best rabbiting dog i've had the pleasure of training .She's also a pleasure to have around in the house, she's like my shadow always wanting to be near me lol.

I've actually entered her in the huntinglifes lamping competition. She will be running against lurchers. our first heat is at the end of the month. We've been drawn up against last years winner!!! so i don't expect to win. What i will say though is she'll give her all and i'm looking forward to meeting up with likeminded folk for a few nights lamping.

Her brother Finn is the same Mally ... he is actually walked a bit less than Vixen, run for about 3/4 of an hour every day, does agility training rather than lamping etc. and recently has been swimming for half an hour every week ... but even if his exercise is cut back for some reason, as unavoidably happens from time to time, his physique stays impressive ... you bred a cracking litter there mate, as born out by Finn and Vixen's wins in the Pride of the Peaks whippet champs :thumbsup: I still can't thank you enough for my blue boy

Good luck with the lamping competition :luck:

Annie

 

[affieluver]

what a stunning young lady a real credit to you mally )

 

[suel]

Thought i'd share a few photo's i took yesterday whilst out ferreting with Vixen. I've been asked to take a few photo's by a leading countrysports magazine and the catching shots will be included in there. The photo's below are the ones that didn't make the grade...

Wonderful

Sue

 

[shameless52]

What a lovely looking girl she is and you're right my Gracie does look like her, maybe a bit redder in the coat. She caught another squirrel a couple of weeks ago, it went up the trunk of a tree and she leapt up and caught it before it made the branches. She's very athletic but, at six months, has no where near the muscle that Vixen has. Can't post a pic 'cos photobucket up the shoot.

I know the dog cant read the hunting act but please be carefull to take a squirrel with a dog is illegal

http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/countryside/.../briefguide.htm

Gracie's 6 months old and playing in our garden and, so far, all the squirrels she has had have been from the garden!!! If the stupid squirrels aren't fast enough then that's their look out, as far as I'm concerned, the more of the vermin she dispatches, the better.

I wasnt having a go I was just saying be carefull, interesting though I have seen people on this fight scream blue murder when the talk has been about catching hares because thats illegal and the post has been removed oh well thats this site all over try and help and get jumped on for it

 

[pointydogs]

wow, just wow :wub:

 

[meddling]

Vixen is in a class of her own...stunning condition...

 

[Foxglove]

WOW!!!!!!! Vixen is looking awesome!!!! And she's not fully fit?

SOOOOooooooo jealous...he's a stunning girl!!! :wub:

 

[whippetmad]

Beautiful Mally :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

[rls22]

What a lovely looking girl she is and you're right my Gracie does look like her, maybe a bit redder in the coat. She caught another squirrel a couple of weeks ago, it went up the trunk of a tree and she leapt up and caught it before it made the branches. She's very athletic but, at six months, has no where near the muscle that Vixen has. Can't post a pic 'cos photobucket up the shoot.

I know the dog cant read the hunting act but please be carefull to take a squirrel with a dog is illegal

http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/countryside/.../briefguide.htm

Gracie's 6 months old and playing in our garden and, so far, all the squirrels she has had have been from the garden!!! If the stupid squirrels aren't fast enough then that's their look out, as far as I'm concerned, the more of the vermin she dispatches, the better.

I wasnt having a go I was just saying be carefull, interesting though I have seen people on this fight scream blue murder when the talk has been about catching hares because thats illegal and the post has been removed oh well thats this site all over try and help and get jumped on for it

I think there is a difference when someones puppy catches a squirrel in their own back garden, as opposed to bragging about dogs "unable to read the hunting act".

 

[Debbie b]

i think she is in really fit condition nice to see a whippet that has muscle tone so many about with flat muscles, as for the huntinglife lamping competition every dogs has its day and i hope she has hers :thumbsup:

 

[shameless52]

What a lovely looking girl she is and you're right my Gracie does look like her, maybe a bit redder in the coat. She caught another squirrel a couple of weeks ago, it went up the trunk of a tree and she leapt up and caught it before it made the branches. She's very athletic but, at six months, has no where near the muscle that Vixen has. Can't post a pic 'cos photobucket up the shoot.

I know the dog cant read the hunting act but please be carefull to take a squirrel with a dog is illegal

http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/countryside/.../briefguide.htm

Gracie's 6 months old and playing in our garden and, so far, all the squirrels she has had have been from the garden!!! If the stupid squirrels aren't fast enough then that's their look out, as far as I'm concerned, the more of the vermin she dispatches, the better.

I wasnt having a go I was just saying be carefull, interesting though I have seen people on this fight scream blue murder when the talk has been about catching hares because thats illegal and the post has been removed oh well thats this site all over try and help and get jumped on for it

I think there is a difference when someones puppy catches a squirrel in their own back garden, as opposed to bragging about dogs "unable to read the hunting act".

technically there isnt and tyllynpip were bragging about her catching ANOTHER squirrel this is just typical of this site if you arent in with the in crowd you are out lol why would you say its ok for the in crowd of this site to break the law but not me?

as for you cant condition whats not there I disagree I would just say Mally is a better conditioner of dogs

btw laziness ie only taking dogs for a 30 min walk when its capable of more thats cruelty not coursing

 

[rls22]

I have absolutely no idea what you are on about when you talk about the "in crowd"

Please quote the right person as well when replying, otherwise it all gets very confusing.

 

[Debbie b]

What a lovely looking girl she is and you're right my Gracie does look like her, maybe a bit redder in the coat. She caught another squirrel a couple of weeks ago, it went up the trunk of a tree and she leapt up and caught it before it made the branches. She's very athletic but, at six months, has no where near the muscle that Vixen has. Can't post a pic 'cos photobucket up the shoot.

I know the dog cant read the hunting act but please be carefull to take a squirrel with a dog is illegal

http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/countryside/.../briefguide.htm

Gracie's 6 months old and playing in our garden and, so far, all the squirrels she has had have been from the garden!!! If the stupid squirrels aren't fast enough then that's their look out, as far as I'm concerned, the more of the vermin she dispatches, the better.

I wasnt having a go I was just saying be carefull, interesting though I have seen people on this fight scream blue murder when the talk has been about catching hares because thats illegal and the post has been removed oh well thats this site all over try and help and get jumped on for it

I think there is a difference when someones puppy catches a squirrel in their own back garden, as opposed to bragging about dogs "unable to read the hunting act".

technically there isnt and tyllynpip were bragging about her catching ANOTHER squirrel this is just typical of this site if you arent in with the in crowd you are out lol why would you say its ok for the in crowd of this site to break the law but not me?

as for you cant condition whats not there I disagree I would just say Mally is a better conditioner of dogs

btw laziness ie only taking dogs for a 30 min walk when its capable of more thats cruelty not coursing

could i just clarify one thing, quarry that is not aloud to be killed with dogs are still not allowed to be killed in anyones garden, if a neighbour wanted to complain the dogs owner will no doubt be prosecuted because they have allowed a dog to kill the quarry

but all this too-ing and fro-ing has taken mally's post off topic

 

[~Annie~]

... as for you cant condition whats not there I disagree I would just say Mally is a better conditioner of dogs ...

Now you are really are muddying the waters ... that was my reply in a different thread

And I agree, Mally is a brilliant conditioner of dogs ... my point is that as the proud owner of Vixen's litter brother I believe that part of Vixen's superiority lies in her breeding (and I doubt that Mally or the breeders of her sire and dam would disagree with me there). Thing is I don't believe myself to be a brilliant conditioner of dogs but Finn doesn't lag far behind his sister even so ... I stand by what I said, you can't condition what isn't there, or to turn it around in Vixen's case (and Finn's) you have plenty to work with from the get go.

 

[shameless52]

I have absolutely no idea what you are on about when you talk about the "in crowd"
Please quote the right person as well when replying, otherwise it all gets very confusing.

its only you has the problem with confusion as I pressed quote on yr post

and then only one person mentioned "you cant condition whats not there"altho no doubt that will be construed as antagonistic even that it was JMO

 

[shameless52]

... as for you cant condition whats not there I disagree I would just say Mally is a better conditioner of dogs ...

Now you are really are muddying the waters ... that was my reply in a different thread

And I agree, Mally is a brilliant conditioner of dogs ... my point is that as the proud owner of Vixen's litter brother I believe that part of Vixen's superiority lies in her breeding (and I doubt that Mally or the breeders of her sire and dam would disagree with me there). Thing is I don't believe myself to be a brilliant conditioner of dogs but Finn doesn't lag far behind his sister even so ... I stand by what I said, you can't condition what isn't there, or to turn it around in Vixen's case (and Finn's) you have plenty to work with from the get go.

as I,ve tried to say I wasn't having a dig I was mearly exercising my right to disagree

 

[~Annie~]

... as for you cant condition whats not there I disagree I would just say Mally is a better conditioner of dogs ...

Now you are really are muddying the waters ... that was my reply in a different thread

And I agree, Mally is a brilliant conditioner of dogs ... my point is that as the proud owner of Vixen's litter brother I believe that part of Vixen's superiority lies in her breeding (and I doubt that Mally or the breeders of her sire and dam would disagree with me there). Thing is I don't believe myself to be a brilliant conditioner of dogs but Finn doesn't lag far behind his sister even so ... I stand by what I said, you can't condition what isn't there, or to turn it around in Vixen's case (and Finn's) you have plenty to work with from the get go.

as I,ve tried to say I wasn't having a dig I was mearly exercising my right to disagree

As was I :thumbsup: Maybe your comment would have made more sense in the Condition thread where my "can't condition what isn't there" comment was posted.

Last time I saw Mally and Vixen (just a few weeks ago) if memory serves he said something similar about quality himself ... but that said it doesn't matter how good the dog it's still all credit to Mally that Vixen is in the condition she is